The Divine Doctor's Bizarre Casebook

During the Yuanding era of the Western Han, the miracle physician Chunyu Yan is summoned to the palace by imperial decree, only to witness ghost soldiers marching through the Yong Alley. The next day, the body of a palace consort surfaces in a well, its back marked with scale-shaped bruises unique to the Locked Dragon Well.

At the same time, strange phenomena occur across the land. Every person in Fengmen Village vanishes overnight, leaving only 37 empty houses scented with medicine. In a snowstorm in Liaodong, the remains of a fallen dragon appear, with a golden acupuncture needle from the Imperial Medical Office embedded seven inches into its head.

Ordered to investigate, Chunyu Yan discovers that every clue points to the forbidden shamanic medicine techniques sealed away in the Imperial Medical Office, which are now awakening. When she opens the bronze medical slips left behind by the Chief Physician, the yellowed silk records reveal a chilling truth: when Qin Shi Huang sought elixirs of immortality, he once turned an entire village into human pills...

The chains beneath the Locked Dragon Well begin to shake, and a dragon's roar rises from the deep well in the Forbidden City. Gripping her silver needles, Chunyu Yan faces zombies and ghost soldiers crawling out through cracks in the history books. She must choose: save the people with a physician's compassion, or fight poison with poison to suppress the evil spirits?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.